Mid-July Flowers Can Handle the Heat

It’s been real hot around here lately. The last couple days have been lettuce-bolting days and the nights have been sticky. Bringing in the morning air – that’s our mountain air conditioning – started at 72 degrees at the crack of dawn today. I hear a siesta coming after lunch…!

In and around the vegetable and flower gardens we have lots of flowers blooming:

purple cone flowers*

marigolds*

yarrow*

catnip*

foxglove

nasturium

rudbeckia

cosmos

geraniums

portulaca*

fennel

cilantro*

petunias

pansies

impatiens

spiderflowers*

sunflowers*

orange tiger lilies

rose campion*

hawkweed

begonias

comfrey

thimbleweed

bee balm

goldenrod

evening primrose

poke

touch-me-not

asiatic day lily

lopseed

anise hyssop*

oregano*

zinnias

lettuce*

zucchini

tomatoes

peppers

cucumbers

ground cherries

watermelons

oxeye daisy

fleabane

dill*

Not too many wild herbs on my summer list, but there are a few we can visit in another post! Pictures to come!

*Marks the happy re-seeders! All we have to do is transplant them where we want the volunteers to grow, or put them in a recycled pot to give to a friend or neighbor.